It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas... for the Pickle Jar team, anyway. I decorated my own house on Monday, we’ve put up the Christmas tree in the office, and we’ve dressed Read More →
According to our recent sector research, content strategies are high on the education sector’s agenda for 2015. We’ve been developing digital content strategies for the education sector since we were founded in 2007, so we …
Read More →It’s been another busy week here at Pickle Jar. Our very own Tracy Playle has been in Atlanta speaking at Confab Higher Ed 2014 on the subject of humour in higher education …
Read More →The first two blog posts from our instant messaging (IM) in higher education three part series have been obvious success stories, with SnapChat and WeChat being used by universities as a useful tool for their …
Read More →When developing a digital content strategy for your education or research organisation, you could easily be forgiven to focus your attention just on the content that you are going to publish online.
However, when developing …
Read More →In the Summer I spoke at the CASE Europe Annual Conference on the topic of going to back to basics for alumni engagement through social media. CASE interviewed me afterwards and asked me to summarise …
Read More →The importance of responding on social media.
Don’t leave your audience hanging, if you ask them a question and they respond, reply back.
Saying that social media is not a broadcasting method but a conversational platform is …
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My team and I were working in-house with a university a few weeks doing some creative content planning. Our session was going really well. Everyone around the table was engaged, everyone creating great content ideas …
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